Questions tagged [geospatial]
Geospatial pertains to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the Earth's surface, particularly referring to data that is geographic and spatial in nature.
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Optimal Data Format(s) for Open GIS Data Repositories?
What format(s) would/should be provided/included with a gis dataset repository?
I know that there is no correct answer, i'd like as many different answers/opinions as possible to make the best ...
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Building maps using ESRI shapefile
I would like to combine together a couple of ESRI shapefile shared by the city of Toronto. After doing a quick search I found plenty of tutorials to use those file in programming language (R, php, ...
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Legacy/obsolete UK postcodes
I don't expect anyone to be able to answer this, but hope to be proved wrong. Does anyone know if there is a reasonably comprehensive source of old postcode data? I have data going back a few years ...
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Geospatial Open Data from Sri Lanka or India
Has anyone come across open geospatial data sets from India or Sri Lanka?
I'm looking for city, district and state/province boundaries
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Where can I get Tectonic Plate Shape Files
I have downloaded the shape files from here but the shape files will not load correctly in any shape file viewer I have.
Does anyone know of any other shape file that contains the tectonic plates?
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Is there anywhere to get US gps pipeline route data?
I am looking for an open database or spreadsheet containing the gps coordinates of pipelines the possibly plot on Google Earth?
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Is there a tool to convert geoRSS into geoJSON?
I have a geoRSS file that I would like to convert to geoJSON to use it with Leaflet. I found MyGeodata Converter (mentioned on What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?), ...
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Looking for lat/long coordinates of proposed Northern Gateway pipeline route
I'm looking for a list of lat/long coordinates of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline route, which Enbridge (an oil company) wants to build in BC. My goal is to build a web app that displays the ...
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UN/LOCODE Copyright Status
Presumably the UN intended UN/LOCODE to be used, but there doesn't seem to be any information regarding its copyright or licensing. Does anyone know under what license it's distributed?
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Bathymetric contour data for North America
I am looking for free Bathymetric contour data in shapefile format for depths between 0-200 meters for North America (including Canada, especially Vancouver, BC). I prefer contours at 10 meter ...
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Northern Ireland electoral wards shapefile
Anyone have any idea where to get a shapefile for NI wards that corresponds to the 2011 census?
NISRA has a small area shapefile that is supposed to be aggregable up to ward boundaries, but the file ...
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Shaded KML file for US Zip Codes? Doesn't have to be perfect
I was looking for a simple KML file anyone knew of that I could just easily import and overlay onto Google Earth. I know Google Earth already seems to show postal code regions under government data, ...
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What's the best way to host map tiles?
I'm interested in generating some open-source maps, with possibly world-wide coverage. I know that depending on the number of zoom levels I include, the number of tiles can be very large, taking up a ...
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Where can I find a longitudinal survey that includes sociographic data, including religion affiliation, over a long period?
Where can I find a population longitudinal survey that would include the following data on the same individuals over a long period (5+ years, higher frequency is preferable)?
Basic demographics (age, ...
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I need a KML file for Northern Ireland BT postcodes
I'm displaying a map of territories, which consist of UK postcode districts (e.g. SN12)
The wikipedia page for each postal area includes a kml file that includes each district separately, which I'm ...
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Examples of scraping from "real-world" data sources using OCR, etc?
Are there any examples of open data that have been scraped from "real-world" sources? To explain what I mean by "real-world", here are some (made up) examples and then some criteria:
Train departure ...
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Where could I find open data about ATM locations (in Paris)?
I'm thinking of building an application that shows you the nearest ATM machine, but I don't know where I can find open data about ATM locations (or if there even is such data available).
I'm asking ...
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Linking results from the FCC's TV Query API to the FCC's TV Stations Profiles API
The FCC has at least two APIs related to broadcast station data. One is TV Query, which can return pipe-delimited results like this (keys):
|K02JU |- |TX |2 |DA | |...
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Data on income information for India, China, and West/East African nations with GIS coordinates
I am planning a project to look at the spatial-temporal spread of income over time. Hence, I am looking for data on household or individual level income information for India, China, and East/West ...
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What level of government/governing agency determines the terms of use for transportation map/gis data in the U.S.?
In the work I do I often need various pieces of geographically-based information concerning public roadways and public transportation. It seems to me (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that this ...
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Sources of topograpical maps for use in LaTeX documents
I would like to add a partial map of Prague into my LaTeX document but I am lost where to begin search for maps and how to get them into the document. I suppose that once I can get EPS or PDF of map ...
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Looking for Open Data Source to Correlate Address to Latitude/Longitude (geocoding)
Are there any open data sources that can help correlate a given address to a latitude/longitude coordinate? aka geocoding
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How to normalize the data when mapping crime reports?
Most maps using count of reports of crime end up being maps of the population density of cities. An attractive response would be to turn these counts into a rate, but a rate per what?
Most commonly, ...
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What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?
In the past, I have released data as zipped Shapefiles (for the professional GIS crowd) and KML/KMZ (viewable by anyone using Google Earth). Are there other formats that would be especially helpful?
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Is there an open API for world terrain data?
I'm looking for open-source or publicly-available terrain data, for instance heightmaps or DEMs -- ideally GeoTIFFS by way of an easy-to-use API. For instance: you pass a pair of lat/longs and maybe a ...
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Where can I find high-precision cartographic data of French rural areas?
While OpenStreetMap is rather good for cartographic information (and rendered maps) in urban areas of France, it is rather unsatisfactory in rural areas (except in the area where I live, where I ...
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Where can I get digital cartographic maps of Brazil?
I have a personal database of cartographic maps that I used for many purposes, mostly planning campings and other outside adventures.
I'd like to have similar data about Brazil.
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